Re: Why are women too dumb to program a computer???

nebulous99@xxxxxxxxx <nebulous99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 9, 10:37 am, Andreas Leitgeb <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[insult deleted] The text-app is the *same* whether
it is running from a real old-iron terminal, or from some emulation.

But the capabilities of the display hardware/drivers aren't the same.
So while the software may always permit arbitrary unicode to be
entered, it won't be able to display it properly under some
environments,

And who cares? Yes, the owners of those real-hardware terminals, not me.
Actually they don't even type chinese texts blindly, but instead they can't
even type those at all. just like you couldn't type texts (neither blind
nor seeing) with a numeric keypad alone. You know, hardware terminals
generally don't offer any keymap-switching to a character set that they
can't display.
Or differently set, if you had some limited hardware, whose mouse and
keyboard are non-functional (e.g. locked away), you wouldn't be able
to use GUI-apps, as well, so by your logic, "GUI-apps can't be typed to",
on systems without a keyboard.

possibly resulting in basically having to type and edit blind.
If you disagree with something I say, remain silent if you wish, but
do not attack me again.

None of the things that you have said or implied are at all true.

.

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